Sonia Kovalevskaia, 1851-1891 – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare antique engraving captures Sonia Kovalevskaia, 1851-1891 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Sonia Kovalevskaia, 1851-1891
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Few women in the 1880s had reached the upper ranks of mathematics, which makes this wood engraving of Sonia Kovalevskaia, the Russian mathematician, notable in its own right. The portrait appeared in *The Illustrated London News* in 1884, the year she was appointed to a professorship at Stockholm, a post that made her one of the first women to hold such a chair in modern Europe. Her work on the rotation of rigid bodies, which won a prize from the French Academy of Sciences in 1888, brought her wide recognition. The engraving records her standing at a moment when the wider press was beginning to take notice of women in science.
| Created / published | 1884 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Notes | Illus. in: The Illustrated London News, 1884, v. 85, p. 121. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,022 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-108598 |
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